The Soft Pack ‘Answer to Yourself’ from Felipe Lima on Vimeo.
L.A. RECORD reports that the Soft Pack (formerly the Muslims) is preparing for a 10-shows-in-one-day marathon this Saturday (Jan. 30) that will take them all over LA as well as to Fingerprints. Guests include about-to-explode Millikan grad Avi Buffalo in Venice and our favorite psychedelic [...]

The Homosexuals’ astral glamour

ILLUSTRATION by LUKE MCGARRY
The Homosexuals existed by exploding inward, formed around a sound that was almost as if the conduit connecting all of England’s punk planet had simply been a detonation device for the Homosexuals’ self-assured experimentation. The resulting debris sent the band spinning off on its own orbit—for years, the Homosexuals [...]

Make this DJ happy on V-Day: Buy him a gun

ILLUSTRATION by LUKE MCGARRY
Loveless? Let DJ Charlie Rose charm you at his Anti-Valentine’s Day party at Max’s Steiner. Fifty dollars goes to the first person to eat a whole raw onion or raw bulb of garlic.
Favorite love song? Betty Padgett, “My Eyes Adore You.”
Favorite breakup [...]

Live Reviews: Micah Panzich, Eleni Mandell and Henry Clay People at the Prospector, “Say Yes” at the Goods Gallery

HENRY CLAY PEOPLE by JOHN SYNCO
By Ellen Griley and Abe Ahn
Even if the water balloon that was hurled from a passing car outside the Prospector Saturday night had connected with somebody’s head—as opposed to bursting just this [...]

APB courtesy Animal Collective PR via LAR:
Just in from Animal Collective’s PR—the show tonight at the Henry Fonda Theatre is CANCELED due to health reasons! The band apologizes for the late late notice and says they were hoping the situation would resolve before they had to back out. Tomorrow’s show is still on as of [...]

Much to do this weekend in Long Beach, among them Saturday’s show at the Prospector with Henry Clay People, Eleni Mandell and a special solo debut by Micah from Paper Planes.

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From our friends at L.A. RECORD:
Hey, all — we have another series of events we thought you might want to know about! We have been working with Hadrian at the L.A. RECORD-loved CINEFAMILY (the folks who book the best films ever developed into the Silent Movie Theatre on Fairfax) to [...]

Apologies for the delay in posting this—our friends at L.A. RECORD alerted us to it a few days back—but Acrobatics Everyday’s Sarm Farzin needs your help to make sure his free all ages shows—BARR, Japanther, Indian Jewelry, etc., etc.—stay that way: free and all ages. Click through for the L.A. RECORD report and help a [...]

The essential wisdom of Moris Tepper

Moris Tepper—onetime pre-vet student; collaborator with Captain Beefheart, Frank Black, Tom Waits and PJ Harvey; and, for this paper at least, tortoise-finding expert—chats animals (“You could talk to me about animals from now til doomsday. I’m queer on animals,” per L.A. RECORD) as easily as he does humans (“People [...]